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I have an array of objects from class Volume. I am looking for the best way to return the _description property given an _id value (accessor method is get_description).
In the below example, I would provide "vol-e123456a3" and it would return "server E: volume".
[0] => Volume Object
(
[_snapshot_count:protected] => 16
[_id:protected] => vol-e123456a3
[_description:protected] => server E: volume
[_region:protected] => us-east-1
[_date_created:protected] => DateTime Object
(
[date] => 2013-04-06 10:29:41
[timezone_type] => 2
[timezone] => Z
)
[_size:protected] => 100
[_state:protected] => in-use
)
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Try this,
$_id="vol-e123456a3";
foreach($objArray as $obj)
{
if($obj->_id==$_id)
{
return isset($obj->_description) ? $obj->_description : "";
}
}
you can use the following function; the data members are marked protected so in order to access them from public side you will have to use accesor methods, which you have not specified. i have placed a guess with the most common possible accesor name.
function getValue($object_array, $filter) {
foreach ($object_array as $object)
if ($object->getId() == $filter) return $object->getDescription();
return false;
}
call it with the following params
$description = getValue($objects, 'vol-e123456a3');
if there are no public accessor methods we will need to use reflection. as follows
function getValue($object_array, $filter) {
foreach ($object_array as $object) {
$class = new ReflectionClass($object);
$prop = $class->getProperty('_id')->getValue($object);
if ($prop == $filter) return $class->getProperty('_description')->getValue($object)
}
return false;
}